Good news: Now we have a Reviewer's (board/committee). We now have 3 reviewers in team: (!) -me (Alexey Eromenko "Technologov") -Michal Marek (mmarek) -Pascal Bleser (yaloki) This is the fair minimum required to vote on decisions. Next stage: Let's start reviewing packages. Additionally, if we can't review the package quickly (in 1 conversation), we will make a wiki page in contrib, with proper intermediate review results for a specific package. Maybe we need also a wiki page for final review results. What do you think ? Example package review: =============================================== "iperf" - IP Performance benchmark Description: Iperf is a tool to measure maximum TCP bandwidth, allowing the tuning of various parameters and UDP characteristics. Iperf reports bandwidth, delay jitter, datagram loss. This package is in OBS. Current maintainer: James Oakley (James also interested in contributing to "contrib" repo, so he may become a package maintainer) Alternative maintainer: me (Alexey Eromenko "Technologov") (if James don't wan't or can't support his child package) URL : http://dast.nlanr.net/Projects/Iperf/ URL 2 : http://sourceforge.net/projects/iperf License: custom OSS-compatible, BSD-like (http://dast.nlanr.net/Projects/Iperf/ui_license.html) Latest update: v2.0.4 Apr 2008 (which means, that package is maintained) OBS URL: http://download.opensuse.org/repositories/home:/jimfunk/openSUSE_11.0/src/ Testing: Package received some testing from me. Everything tested found to work. No crashes. =============================================== 1. What do you think of the review process 2. What do you think of the package -- -Alexey Eromenko "Technologov", 25.8.2008 --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-factory+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse-factory+help@opensuse.org

No offense, but do you have enough packaging experience ? I dont think so ;) No. That's why I will mostly work on simple packages :) But I do have some good experience in BETA-testing and catching bugs... I take on a job I can handle.

The people who want complex packages in "contrib" will have to maintain them. Now, if you look in candidates page: "http://en.opensuse.org/Contrib/packages" You will see that most packages are of little-to-medium difficulty. For now we don't have too much packages in the list, that can be considered _complex_. We will have complex packages in the future, sure, but then we also have skilled packagers on the "contrib" list of interested users.

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This is the fair minimum required to vote on decisions.

Next stage: Let's start reviewing packages.

Not really.. it is just too soon to start ..

Why do you believe it is too soon ? -- -Alexey Eromenko "Technologov" --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-factory+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse-factory+help@opensuse.org

Alexey Eremenko escribió:

The initial reviewer's group is small, yes, but it may grow... (but the number must stay uneven) - This will allow us to make democratic decisions.

Excuse me , but what has even or uneven numbers to do with democracy ? what the ... truly confused. Cristian. -- "A computer is like an Old Testament god, with a lot of rules and no mercy. " Cristian Rodríguez R. Platform/OpenSUSE - Core Services SUSE LINUX Products GmbH Research & Development http://www.opensuse.org/

* Alexey Eremenko [2008-08-25 18:43]:

On Mon, Aug 25, 2008 at 3:20 PM, Cristian Rodríguez wrote:

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Alexey Eremenko escribió:

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The initial reviewer's group is small, yes, but it may grow... (but the number must stay uneven) - This will allow us to make democratic decisions.

Excuse me , but what has even or uneven numbers to do with democracy ? what the ...

This allows voting. If there are even number of people, we will never decide.

And if one person decides to abstain from voting ... :) Bernhard -- Bernhard Walle, SUSE LINUX Products GmbH, Architecture Development --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-factory+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse-factory+help@opensuse.org

OK, Let's back to package discussion. 1. What do you think of the review process 2. What do you think of the package -- -Alexey Eromenko "Technologov" --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-factory+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse-factory+help@opensuse.org

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This allows voting.

What ? I hope you are kidding.. even or unvene numbers have nothing to do with democracy, voting or whatever,, anyway Im not sure voting is the right solution..

The main idea behind this, is that uneven number will allow us to agree on problematic packages. -- -Alexey Eromenko "Technologov" --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-factory+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse-factory+help@opensuse.org